Normandie Golf Course

Greens were pretty good and many of the tee boxes were under renovation. It was cart path only but the cart paths were terrible. Too many huge trees with roots tearing them up. I spilled more beer than I drank.. Tough on the old back.

Poor clubhouse, tee times stacked on top of each other and almost everyone else was hitting from the senior tees so we could not keep pace with them starting half way down the fairway. After letting 5 groups play through before the turn, we gave up. We play ready golf but this was ridiculous. We finished the front 9 in 1.5 hours and were still pressured. No thanks.

This is my first and last time playing this course not because of the course, it was the experience. I have never reviewed a course in my life. I had an afternoon tee time. I had the course to myself for a while. The greens looked good until about the 6th green. When I hit the green there was a guy there aerating the green. He didn’t bother to stop because I was there. I thought he pulled the flag for me. Oh no. As I was putting, he drove the machine right over the hole. I thought he was going to run over my ball. I also played after a rainy day. The course was cart path only. If you play this course an it is Cary path only plead, cajole, bribe them or do what you have to do to get the 90 degree rule. The cart path was like 4 wheeling. I almost lost the cart in a pothole twice. If you stay on the cart path as I did and everyone else didn’t, I assure you that you will need an injury attorney when you are done. Surprisingly there were no advertisements for an attorney anywhere on the course. The course is not marked very well and there are lots of blind shots, as I hit a perfect 205 yard fairway shot onto the green and when I arrived there were two gentlemen standing on the green. I apologized for hitting up on them. One of them said that was a grea blind shot, but the looked upset. I had to slow my pace and had to follow them the rest of the way. The were hitting balls off of the fairway which was evident that they would never find them but that didn’t stop them from looking for about 5 minutes per ball. Lastly, you have to hit the fairways. If you miss the fairway let it go. I actually hit a green (I think number 12) and the ball bounced off and I never found it. Hit them straight or prepare to pay the price.

Scored a nice hot deal with a 9:33am tee time. Upon arrival, was informed I was already good to go and could load up. Good price, good pace, good round!

Most of the recent reviews are pretty spot on, however the fairways are looking mostly okay with the cooler weather. Almost all the greens are playing very nice. I agree about the bunkers being terrible, however just avoid them at all cost; if you have skills, the bunkers won’t kill your game.
This is a fun course, but don’t show up paying their premium rate and try comparing it to a high end public course, or following a golfing trip to Florida. ;)

Course was in good condition and played very fair. It penalizes you if you don't hit your shots. Rough is fair and will penalize you if you hit into it. Tough pin placement. Greens were fast today and were challenging to say the least. I will be back.......

Classic old course that had a lot of tall trees that were like magnets for my left to right flight path. Course was a little rough in places but a good value. Great old school style course...Everyone should play it

It’s a fun course in fair condition. Fairways are nice and greens are good enough. Layout is okay, it’s not boring. A lot of blind tee shots and some interesting par 5s and 3s. A couple cool par 4s. Maintenance of course seems a little negligent but even so the course is still in good condition. I highly recommend for a good price! (~$35 for the weekends and ~$20 for the weekdays)

The people working there were very nice, I’ll give them that. Condition was very poor, tee to green. If they charged $25 peak I wouldn’t complain but for $45 much more should be expected. The layout is somewhat interesting and very tough, which made the the bare lies even worse. The greens were hard to putt on, very bumpy through dead patches and inconsistent speed throughout. If they were priced appropriately I would call it an okay budget course but for what they charge I’d say look elsewhere.

The fairways were dirt, the tee boxes were mud/dirt and no grassc the greens were 50/50, pace of play was horrible. Backed up on every tee, the cartpaths were a joke. There were potholes or just gravel on a ton of them. There were also weeds on the greens. Save your money and play somewhere else.

I played with a 4 some on Saturday. It was an amazing day so I knew it would be slow. I was anticipating a 5 hour round. After the front 9 we were locked in at 3 hours. We waited essentially every time we needed to hit a ball. The group behind us left and just skipped multiple holes. I've played Normandie a dozen or so times. I don't think you'll find more challenging greens for a public course and the conditions are very good for the amount of traffic. The issue is that there is a lack of public courses that are worth your time in STL, so courses like Normandie get a lot of attention. I also think it's fairly challenging and there are a ton of trees to hit which can make high handicap golfers even slower. I haven't been able to put my finger on what makes this course so slow but it's consistent. The guys in the group ahead of us said they only play the course when they have to due to poor pace of play. This didn't ruin my day at all but something needs to be done to speed up pace. Either don't book the course with so many tee times or keep a Marshall on the course or don't book so many tee times and stagger things so golfers are tee'd off on 2 before someone starts on one. Other courses figure this out, I play all of them but for some reason Normandie can't. I also think due to the hills and slope there are a numbers of blind drives or blind second shots on both the front and back 9. There needs to be a red light/green light board at the top of the hills that golfers flip for the next group when they move on to their 3rd shots. Driving to the top of the hill and coming back down to the tee box to make sure you aren't going to hit someone is silly and further slows things down.

I always enjoy playing “The Rock”. Course isn’t in the best shape but it’s always a blast. A lot of the tee boxes seem like they are under repair... Front 9 is in a lot better shape than the back 9.

This course itself is a decent design and has tons of character. Quite a bit of amazing tree lines but the condition is horrible...a real dirt track. Spend the extra money and go somewhere else.